Chapter XVI: Book I: Chapter I

Preparations for my Fancy Dress Ball—I find that my lodgings are too much after the style of Socrates—My artist-decorators—The question of the supper—I go for provisions to la Ferté-Vidame—View of this capital town of the Canton, by night, in a snowstorm—My nephew's room—My friend Gondon—Roebuck hunting—Return to Paris—I invent a Bank of Exchange before M. Proudhon—The artists at work—The dead 1

CHAPTER II

Alfred Johannot 10

CHAPTER III

Clément Boulanger 18

CHAPTER IV

Grandville 28

CHAPTER V

Tony Johannot 36